Boobalicious Seeks Actors

Boobalicious (www.boobalicious.ca) is seeking actors to perform at the Toronto event on October 16th 2009 at the Sound Academy in Toronto.

Boobalicious is attempting to top the 50k we raised last year to support The Weekend to End Breast Cancer and Keep a Breast. With that goal in mind we are looking for actors to volunteer their time and talents to help us support this very worthy cause.

This year’s event is carnival themed. We need actors to create a vaierty of circus, carney style characters and scenes to portray in our Carnival Peep Show which will provide our event patrons with a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of Circus life.

Actors will rotate into this set in groups ranging from 1 person to 4 in half an hour intervals from 9 pm- 1 am

Requirements

• strong improvisation skills
• ability to work with others
• ability to create a variety of interesting and dynamic characters and scenes with little direction

For more information please contact Michael at mbowen@boobalicious.ca.

Mixed Company IMPACT Monthly Meeting

IMPACT Monthly Meeting
Thursday Oct 1st @ 6pm
157 Carlton St (South East Corner of Carlton and Sherbourne)

Youth 15-25 are welcome to attend!

Please email youth@mixedcompanytheatre.com to RSVP or for more information.

“The Mixed Company Theatre IMPACT Committee seeks to provide youth with a creative outlet to initiate social change.”

For more information – (416) 515-8080 ~ www.mixedcompanytheatre.com

ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche, a free all night contemporary art thing

a free all night contemporary art thing
6:55 PM to sunrise, October 3rd, 2009

For one sleepless night experience the city transformed by close to 500 artists for Toronto’s fourth annual sunset to sunrise celebration of contemporary art. Discover art in galleries, museums and unexpected places. From churches and grocery stores to chimney stacks and bus stations, choose from 130 projects and chart your own path.

http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca

BuskerFest Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

The Scotiabank Toronto International BuskerFest is celebrating its 10th anniversary – and there’s a lot to celebrate!

Since its inception the festival has featured hundreds of the best street performers from around the world, hosted hundreds of thousands of amazed spectators and has helped raise close to one million dollars for Epilepsy Toronto. Not only is it now the largest festival of its kind in North America it is also the largest Epilepsy awareness raising event in the world! Not bad for a 10 year old.

Art Gallery of Ontario’s Retrospective Launch Party

Art Gallery of Ontario’s Retrospective Launch Party

Date: August 12th, 2009
Time: 5:00-9:00pm
Admission: FREE
NB: High school students with valid ID can access the gallery free from 3:30-5:30, general public free hours from 6 to 8:30pm
Address: Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W., Toronto, Ontario
Description: The AGO is hosting a launch party on August 12th from 5-9pm in celebration of ten years of youth and art at the Gallery! Come out for a night of music, dance performances, the launch of an exhibition and video project, and connecting with old friends and meeting new friends!

Hope to see you there!

http://www.ago.net/tenth-anniversary-party

Check out our Facebook page for more information about the party and other events!! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102452704708&ref=ts

Youth Arts Jam in High Park

Hey!

Are you looking to stay involved in theatre over the summer break?

Are you looking to be away from all the stinky garbage in the city?

Come to the Youth Arts Jam!

Who is the Youth Arts Jam for? All Youth between the ages of 14 to 24

Fringe Festival July 1- 12

The Fringe is Toronto’s largest theatre festival.

In 2009 it will be host to over 150 theatre companies from around the globe – most from right here in Toronto! With over 29 different venues and 800+ artists, the Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival is Toronto’s largest theatre festival.

Join the excitement and beat the economic blues with 59,000 other Fringers as you sit back and see Broadways’ next hit, or something wild and wacky – all for under $10.

Carlos Bulosan Theatre Offers Philippine Puppetry Workshop

Carlos Bulosan Theatre would like to invite you to take part in a very special workshop on Philippine Puppetry. Amihan Bonifacio-Ramolete, a Senior Puppeteer at Teatrong Mulat in the Philippines, will be leading this exciting workshop. She is here in Toronto for a very limited time, so don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn this unique art form. We will only be offering this workshop twice. Space is limited, reserve your spot today!

For more info and/or to register, please contact: info@carlosbulosan.com or call 416-979-0400.

A Charge on Billboards to Fund Art in the Public Sphere

WOULD YOU SUPPORT?

• A historic 53% increase to the annual municipal funding available to all artists, festivals and arts institutions?

• And, close to $100 000.00 dollars for public realm improvement for each Toronto ward including projects such as greening every year?

• As well, as over $300 000.00 annually for each of the 13 priority neighbourhoods to fund accessible youth arts programming?

• Topped by hiring 17 dedicated officers to enforce the new billboard bylaw and collect fines?

The Canadian Stage Company Offers Free Learning Series

Hi,

The Canadian Stage Company is pleased to invite you to our FREE learning series called Find Your Light on Monday May 11th, at 6 pm sharp in the Rehearsal Hall of The Canadian Stage Berkeley, 26 Berkeley Street.

Our very special guest, trey anthony, creator of ‘da Kink in My Hair http://www.treyanthony.com will be speaking about her own experiences in establishing her career.

This is a chance for all interested in the arts to join us for an evening focusing on how to begin a career in theatre and how to succeed. It’s also a great opportunity to hear directly from trey anthony, one of North America’s most acclaimed artists.

Hot Docs Offers Free Tickets to Best Worst Movie

What do you get when you cross Fantasy Worldwide and Hot Docs? Read on to find out!

The Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival will be co-presenting a film at North America’s leading Documentary film festival: Hot Docs. The 16th Hot Docs annual Film Festival is taking place April 30th – May 10th and will present a selection of 170 films from 30 around the globe.

Fantasy Worldwide and Hot Docs are pleased to present:

Best Worst Movie

Get Lit! Competition

Get Lit Competition and Exhibition
Calling all Torontonians
Deadline May 4, 2009

Torontonians of all ages are invited to get creative and submit their Toronto inspired works to the first-ever Get Lit! Competition.

Get Lit! invites submissions in any creative form providing the final work includes a literary element. Get Lit! explores how text and spoken word can be presented in various media and will present new ways of telling city stories. Everyone is invited to tell their stories through a work of art, poem, short story, film or even a sound recording. All entries will be a part of a special weekend long exhibition on May 23 and 24, where Doors Open visitors can learn more about the Toronto Arts Council, its literary grants programs, and check out and read all the Get Lit! entries!

WinterCity Festival: Pi-Leau by CloseAct

Fridays & Saturdays
January 30 & 31
February 6 & 7
7 pm (60 minute show)
Free!
Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street West

Dutch street theatre troupe, Close-Act, transforms Nathan Phillips Square into a mythical under-water world that floats high above the audience. Themes of global warming and environmental struggles are evident, but at its heart this spectacular open-air production of Pi-Leau is a story of forbidden love that combines theatre, music, fire, dance and incredible props.

Roy Thomson Hall’s 12th Annual Free Noon Hour Choir and Organ Concerts

Roy Thomson Hall’s magnificent Gabriel Kney pipe organ shares the spotlight with Canada’s most celebrated organists and choirs. Enjoy an hour of beautiful music in the splendour of this acoustically superb venue. Free Admission!

Made possible by the generous support of Edwards Charitable Foundation.